More Color & Contour Fun

 

Hello Stampin' Friends. Can you tell I am really enjoying the Stampin' Up! Color and Contour Bundle? I have had so much fun with this amazing stamp and die set, creating cards from elegant to whimsical. Today's card is all about whimsical!

I began with a quarter sheet of Stampin' Up! Vellum and I colored on it with Stampin' Blend Markers - four colors. I then added used a paint brush and added drops of alcohol to the ink colors. Since the Stampin' Blends are alcohol markers, the alcohol acted with the ink color and spread it and created fun patterns. 

After the vellum dried, I trimmed the edges and cut the vellum down to three strips 1.5 x 3.6 - inches. I affixed the strips to a piece of Pale Papaya cardstock, then I cut a Pale Papaya frame. I matted the framed section onto a 5.25 x 4 - inch rectangle of Polished Pink Cardstock.


Before affixing the layers to the black card base, I wrapped Polish Pink ribbon around opposite corners, gift wrap style. I added a double bow, then glued the card front to the base. 

I stamped three Color and Contour double stamp flowers onto white cardstock in black ink. I then used Polished Pink and Pale Papaya inks to complete the second step stamping. I used markers to color the flower center and stampin' dimensionals to affix the flower to the card.

I finished the card with the adorable sentiment from the same stamp set, stamping on white and matting on black. 

I hope you enjoyed this fun card. I am adding a list of products used to make this card below.


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Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop

 


Hello Stampin' Friends. Today I am participating in the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. If you joined me through the hop, you are currently visiting Susan Edwards from South Caroline, USA. Welcome.

Today I am all about the Polished Pink! I am absolutely besotted with this color. Something about it makes me so happy. For my card I used Stampin' Up!'s Friends Are Like Seashells stamp set and die bundle, Polished Pink (Ink, cardstock, and ribbon), Expressions in Ink designer series paper, and Gilded Leafing flakes. I know that one does not naturally think of Polished Pink seashells, but in an ideal world all seashells would be this lovely - and ebellished with gold!!  



I began by stamping the large seashell onto white cardstock in Polished Pink Ink. Using embossing ink, Stampin' Up!'s Heat and Stick Powder, and the Gilded Leafing, I added the the gold elements to the shell, like barnicles, only gold! I selected the Polished Pink and Gold paper from the Expressions in Ink DSP, perfect for my pink and gold pallet. I added a gold and white stripe edging.

Another favorite new product is out Tailor Made Tags dies. They feature two styles of tags in four sizes each. I cut the die in Polished Pink Cardstock and heat embossed my birthday sentiment in gold embossing powder. 

I completed the card by adding a gorgeous Polished Pink ribbon bow and gilded gems. Such a perfect girly-girl birthday card!

Thanks for joining me today. I will be back with more Stampin' Up! projects soon. In the meantime, enjoy the blog hop!!





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Friendships Refresh The Soul


Hello Stampin' Friends. Have you seen Stampin' Up's new Beauty of Friendship suite yet? The designer series paper alone was enough to get me very excited. But then I begin using the stamps and dies, and I had an "OOOH" experience! I just the abstract look of the trees with splotches of color, and dimension, and depth.  



The Beauty of Friendship bundle contains thirteen stamps and nine coordinating dies. This includes six sentiment stamps! I created this easel card to showcase the bundle, the designer series paper, the potential for use of color, and one of the sentiments. 


If you have not already visited my online Stampin' Up! store, now would be an ideal time. Click the link in the side bar or click the link in the supplies used list below.


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Party Puffins Birthday Cards

 


Hello friends. Have you seen the new Party Puffins stamp set from Stampin' Up! yet? You KNOW I am going to tell you that it is one of my favorite stamp sets, right? Well, it really is! I cannot help it of Stampin' Up! make the cutest darned stamps and dies and punches! 

The Party Puffins is an eleven piece stamp set with three adorable puffins, a wrapped fish, a birthday cake, and candles, as well as five sentiment stamps. It is the perfect birthday set ensemble as everything you need to stamp cute birthday cards is in the set.

For the two puffin birthday cards I am sharing today, I used white cardstock to stamp my images, and I colored with Stampin' Up!'s Stampin' Blend markers. I used some of FABULOUS hostess special designer series paper, Pattern Party, to enhance my cards. I also used our new tag die set, Tailor Made Tags for the sentiment tags. 


If you would like to own the Pattern Party designer series paper, a set of 48 double sided 12 x 12 paper, you will need to place an order of at least $150, or host a workshop with your friends (online or in person) and collect $150 in orders. The hostess paper can then be purchased for $18. Send me an email or give me a call and I can help you with this.

Thanks for stopping by today.



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Color and Contour In-Color Card


Hello Stampin' Friends. Today I am back to share another card made with the fabulous Stampin' Up! Color and Contour Bundle. This is one of the cards that the guests created at my Catalog Launch/Bingo event last weekend. 

The card features a new in-color base card, Pale Papaya. To that a scalloped edge mat was die cut using the Color and Contour dies. A rectangle of Hand Penned Designer Series Paper was added a top mat. 

The inverted scallop edged sentiment area was created using the scallop edge die in the Color and Contour dies. I stamped a happy birthday sentiment in another new in-color, Fresh Freesia.

The flowers and stems on the front used a two-step process. The outlines were stamped in black and the coordinating second stamp, the petal fill in, was stamped in Pale Papaya. I used the Fresh Freesia marker to color in the flower centers, and the Soft Succulent to add a bit of color to the leaves. The coordinating dies were used to cut the flowers and stems. Dimensional dots were used to affix the flowers to the card front.

To finish the card, a very simple bow in Pale Papaya ribbon was attached to a flower stem.

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